Tag: Christianity

  • Mary Considered

    In Roman Catholic theology, Mary has an elevated status; she is inextricably integrated into the economy of salvation. It is Mary who, according to Roman Catholic theology, is the Mediatrix of All Graces. She dispenses grace to sinners from the Treasury of Merit. The problem is that this Mariology is unbiblical. There is no such…

  • The Biblical Gospel: Grounded in Justification

    The very essence of the gospel, of Jesus Christ, is justification by faith alone. We are saved by grace alone, through faith alone. None of our good works are meritorious. We are totally undeserving of salvation. God did not condition our faith on us accepting Christ in our future (God exists outside of time). No.…

  • A Tale of Authorities

    When defining doctrine, we Reformed affirm Sola Scriptura (Scripture Alone) as our highest authority. It restricts us from tainting our interpretation of Scripture by adding extraneous sources of doctrine. Roman Catholics affirm Sola Ecclesia (Church Alone) contains the dual authorities of tradition and the magisterium (teaching authority). Scripture, tradition, and the magisterium are all equal…

  • America: Once a Bastion of the Reformed – Now Apostate

    In 1793, 956 out of 1,032 baptist churches in America were calvinistic. This equates to 93%. A 2012 Lifeway poll of SBC pastors found that of 1,066 SBC pastors, 30% said their churches were calvinistic. One of the foremost constitutional theorists of the founding generation, John Adams, observed, “Our Constitution was made only for a…

  • Eastern Orthodoxy and Scripture

    Unlike us Reformed Protestants, the Eastern Orthodox (EO) place their phronema (collective consensus over time), which is merely the fallible traditions of men, to a place of preeminence. This is an extremely dangerous position to be in. The EO do not have the corrective force of Sola Scriptura (Scripture Alone) to guide and safeguard their…

  • Salvation: One Way or Many?

    The prevailing and dominant position among most people is that there are numerous paths to God and salvation. It teaches that Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Jewish, and others will be saved by living a “good life”, and God will judge them on the basis of how many good vs evil works they did. The truth is…

  • My Testimony: From Darkness to Light

    I grew up in a loving Christian home. My parents were both cradle Catholics who got born again in the early 70s, during the Jesus Movement – which started in the late 60s. My parents were Christian hippies. They grew out of that when we kids were born and they became regular Protestants. At a…

  • The Roman Catholic Church is Apostate

    The Roman Catholic church is NOT biblical. It has a false hopeless gospel of works-righteousness, whereby one must work for one’s salvation. At the Council of Trent, the Roman Catholic church repudiated the biblical Gospel of salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, according to Scripture alone, for the glory of God…

  • The Roman Catholic Church Laid Bare by Quotations

    The following quotes demonstrate the Roman Catholic church is a false and apostate church!!!! It is full of arrogance and hubris. The power hungry, lascivious, and vain popes have acted atrociously over the centuries. Roman Catholics believe in the church alone (Sola Ecclesia) and not the Scriptures as they should. These quotes are just a…

  • The Cult of Mary

    Since the mid-second century AD, there has been a growing cult, in the Roman Catholic church, which is based around Jesus’ mother Mary. Over time, this cult has grown, and now counts hundreds of millions of followers. The Cult of Mary has refashioned the biblical Mary, adding many superfluous and extra-biblical doctrines, which are purely…